Posthuman Pandemic

Saul Newman is Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His latest titles include Postanarchism (2016) and Political Theology: A Critical Introduction, (2019). Tihomir Topuzovski is Interdisciplinary Programme Director at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, North Macedonia, and is editor-in-chief of the journal The Large Glass.

• Introduction, Saul Newman (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) and Tihomir Topuzovski (Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia)Part I: Philosophy1. The (post)human and the (post)pandemic: rediscovering our selves, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada)2. “Life is obviously not easy to define”: Viral Politics and Dynamic Patterning in Susanne K. Langer’s Philosophies of Art and Life, Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)3. Dead, Alive: Deconstruction, Biopolitics and Life Death, Stefan Herbrechter (Heidelberg University, Germany)Part II: Politics4. Contagious Politics: Posthuman anarchism, Saul Newman (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)5. Spectatorial Splitting and Transcultural Seeing in the Age of Pandemics, Josephine Berry (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)6. Posthuman Vectors and the Production of a Common Flesh, Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph, Canada); and Anna McWebb (McGill University, Canada)7. While You Were at Home, Confined… Control and Technology After the City, Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)Part II: Art8. Is Human to Posthuman as Earth is to Post-Earth? Notes on Terraforming and (Trans)Forming, Amanda du Preez (University of Pretoria, South Africa) 9. Quarantine in Waiting: Plant Clocks and the Asynchronies of Viral Time,Ada Smailbegovic(Brown University, USA)10. Thinking and/over/in the pandemic: From contact points towards contact zones potentially reconciling us with the ultramicroscopic sublayers of life, Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)11. Viral agencies and curating worldly life differently in museum spaces, Fiona Cameron (Western Sydney University, Australia)Index

Turning to philosophy, politics, and arts as inventive sites for thinking the human otherwise in these viral times, The Posthuman Pandemic brings together an impressive collection of cross-disciplinary voices demonstrating the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed and reshaped our posthuman condition. A timely and urgently needed analysis.